Hanoi5

What's obvious? I don't know what to do! 3♥ might lead partner to think I have an opening bid and doubling the likely 4♠. 4♥ could do the same, though it may be better. 5♥ right away is just too risky. Pass could be nice if they don't get to 4♠ but it might be a fantasy. I might bid 4♥.

4♥ X? Not sure I think A and Q in a different suits (instead of the same) could be enough for a pass. - Probably not.

[hv=d=e&v=n&w=sa8hq8765dqjcakj5&e=skq9432hat2dk7cq9]266|100|Scoring: IMP[/hv] Opponents won't interfere.

Viva España!!!

So, if you want to know which shoes De Jong wears you just have to check Alonso's chest, amirite?

Both red, you get: ♠T852 ♥A84 ♦Q86 ♣KQ2 It goes: Pa-Pa-1♦-Pa 1♥-X-2♥-??? What do you bid? What do you expect to happen? Would you have doubled 1♦?

Red vs White, you get: ♠AT96532 ♥654 ♦ ♣964 1♥-??? Let's suppose you pass: 1♥-Pa-1NT*-X 2♣-??? And finally: 1♥-Pa-1NT*-X 2♥-2♠-3♦-X 3♥-Pa-Pa-3♠ Pa-??? How many spades in each case?

All red, you hold: ♠J ♥3 ♦AKQ97 ♣Q97643 After two passes, how would you treat this hand? Would you open 1♣ or 1♦? Let's say it goes: Pa-Pa-1♣-1♠ 1NT-2♠-??? What would you bid then? Pa-Pa-1♣-1♠ 1NT-2♠-3♦-3♠ X-Pa-??? How about then? I understand you wouldn't get to any of these sequences but let's say you were sent to a table and the opponents refuse to redeal...

Wasn't everybody going to play the same hands?

Red vs White, you hold: ♠ ♥AK8764 ♦83 ♣AK832 Pa-1♠-2♥-4♠ Pa-Pa-???

So, 32 hands total. Maybe 16 more if there is another round (if there are more pairs). I don't think memory help should be allowed. On other matter, is the process going to be taken into account or just the results? What if a pair can't explain their reasonings satisfactorily? How about setting dates for 'registrations'?

Ancient tribes in my country believed that eating a persons brain or uscles would give you their intelligence or strength. Whoever eats Paul will turn into an oracle...

Why do you want 'real' hands? Why not combine them (real+prepared)? You could get some real hands and some hands from a magazine where they have already been commented upon. Maybe you want to have real hands so that the score reflects what happened at the table (i.e. results will be the comparison of the contract you arrived at and how it fared in the tournament or actual hand) but you're gonna have to be careful choosing the tourneys then, for a hand played in a tournament in Wonderland might not get the same results as a hand played in Mordor...i.e. you're gonna have to give points to the hands based more on analysis than in conditions when the hand was played... I offer my help again to gather some hands and maybe even to moderate at a table in case you need/want it.

He's not gonna be alone and as far as I know no one has cloned himself yet...

If there'll be N/S and E/W how are pranksters (?) going to be handled? What if I enter EVERY auction the opponents have? I'm not saying psychs HAVE to be prohibited but probably limited. Maybe negative points for pairs who get in the way of others auctions and get doubled in ugly contracts... Another thing is: MP's or IMP's? Generally speaking most of these contests in magazines are thought of in MP's, is it going to be the same here? hrothgar mentioned evaluation based not only in results but also in the process. Evaluation terms have to be very clear then. Do all hands have the same value? 10 as in challenge the champs? Where are the hands coming from? I'd love to participate as a contestant but if you want me to I can help getting some hands from BW's, IPBM's, etc.

Sometimes I think they really can't.

am I suposed to know what you are talking about? Stop Fluffy! Get on the internet!

I'm not a hater, I actually think it's funnier. I'm just bitter for the results of the prediction contest.

More like the WC was hijacked by Aberlour10...

Both situations looks very similar to me. I would play both of them as forcing and probably the second one should be stronger. I can bid 2♣ in both and also double (although in the first one it would probably be 3-card heart support which narrows my possibilities). As for being forcing, I think I agree with jdonn but only because if I REALLY had to force in the second one I might as well cue-bid.

But how did you realize that!? So, do some bridge players get Ritalin prescriptions from their shrinks in order to fare better? Or is it worse than that?

I voted a diamond. Nice bidding by the opponents.../irony

I don't know much about the subject but if it is true then cycling as a sport is a joke.

North 100%.

I forgot to add that I'd pass over 4♠.